Five ‘Must Read’ Books for All Business Leaders and CEOs
As a business leader there are countless books aimed at how you can grow your business and become a more successful leader, but if you are strapped for time, we have compiled a list of our top five ‘must read’ titles for anyone invested in becoming a more successful leader.
Outthink The Competition by Kaihan Krippendorff
Krippendorff is an author and futurist renowned internationally as a speaker and expert on strategy, growth and transformation, due to his ability to turn difficult concepts into easy-to-understand ideas that drive meaningful outcomes. To date his work has generated over $2.5B in new annual revenue for global companies including JP Morgan Chase, L’Oreal, Microsoft and Yahoo!
‘Outthink the Competition’ presents stories of breakthrough companies like apple, Google and Vistaprint whose performances defy traditional explanation and inspire readers to outthink the competition. Proving that business competition is undergoing a fundamental paradigm shift and the Outthinkers are beating the traditionalists.
Krippendorff provides Outthinkers with a new playbook, highlighting that these are the business leaders that identify opportunities others ignore, challenge dogma others accept as truth, rally resources others cannot influence and unleash new strategies that disrupt their markets.
Turning The Fly Wheel - A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great by Jim Collins
‘Turning the Flywheel’, focuses on sharing new and practical insights about the ‘flywheel principle’.
Building on the ‘flywheel’ concept he introduced in ‘Good to Great,’ Collins takes business leaders through the process of how to create and accelerate their flywheel’s momentum and how to stay on the flywheel in times of disturbance and changing markets.
This principle outlines the key to any business’s success is not a merely a single innovation or plan, it is the act of turning the flywheel, slowly gaining momentum, and eventually reaching a breakthrough.
No matter how big or small your business, if you are an established CEO or aspiring to become a more successful leader, this book will help you understand how your ‘flywheel’ turns.
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
What if you knew how to create good habits, break bad ones, and get 1% better every day?
According to James Clear, a leading expert on habit formation, if you’re having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn’t you.
Bad habits repeat themselves not because you don’t want to change but because you have the wrong system for change. This is one of the core philosophies of ‘Atomic Habits’: You don’t rise to the level of your goals; you fall to the level of your systems.
In this book, you’ll get a proven plan that will reshape the way you think about progress and success and provide the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits.
The Other Everest Navigating the Pathway to Authentic Leadership by David Irvine
Do you know your six core accountabilities as a leader?
The reason we recommend ‘The Other Everest Navigating the Pathway to Authentic Leadership’ so highly is because it provides practical information to those wanting to be successful leaders and discover what authentic leadership means. This book provides insights and tools to assess and strengthen your own unique authentic leadership approach.
It also offers sound advice on how to develop ways to amplify your presence and influence, how to maximise your potential by understanding and mastering your six core accountabilities as a leader.
Irvine believes that true authentic leadership requires one to slow down, go inside and develop a relationship with our interior self. He encourages his readers to find one’s voice – away from the voices of the world.
To attain the capacity to influence in today’s changing and demanding world, along with the depth to lead with a strong authentic presence requires an inner journey, a journey to one’s heart, a journey to what Irvine calls the “Other Everest.”
Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter by Liz Wiseman
As a business leader, are you a genius or a genius maker?
In this must-read book, leadership expert Liz Wiseman and management consultant Greg McKeown explore two leadership styles, Multipliers and Diminishers.
The pair analysed data from over 150 leaders and identified five disciplines that distinguish Multipliers from Diminishers. These five disciplines are skills and practices that everyone can learn to use… even lifelong and recalcitrant Diminishers.
Packed with real-world case studies, practical techniques, and tips of how to embody each of these five principles, showing you how to become a Multiplier, regardless of if you are a new or an experienced leader.
Imagine what you could accomplish if you could harness all the energy and intelligence around you. ‘Multipliers’ will show you how.
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